Hot mix asphalt: supplied, or supplied, laid and compacted

Hot mix asphalt (supplied, or supplied, laid and compacted)

Hot-mixed asphalt in the mix your BOQ names. One quote can cover the asphalt alone, or the asphalt laid and compacted, so the surfacing line of a contract sits with one supplier.

Mixes

Continuously graded (fine and medium grades, as specified); dense graded; modified, with a polymer-modified binder such as A-E2, as BOQs specify

Specification

To SANS specifications where applicable, and to your project specification and mix design

Supplied as

In bulk, by the tonne; or supplied, laid and compacted, by the tonne or per m² at a stated thickness

Laying

When we lay it: placed by paver over a tack coat and compacted, to your project specification

Technical support

Product selection and application guidance

Documents

Data sheet and safety data sheet on request

Where it is used

• Surfacing and asphalt overlays on new and existing roads, streets and yards.
• Rehabilitation of worn or failed surfacing.
• Patching and pothole repair with hot asphalt, where the job is large enough to pave.

Also written as: hot premix asphalt, HMA, hot asphalt, continuously graded asphalt, dense graded asphalt, modified asphalt, asphalt surfacing, asphalt overlay.

To quote, send us

• The mix type, nominal size and binder, for example continuously graded medium with 50/70, or a modified mix with A-E2.
• The tonnes, or the area and the compacted thickness.
• Supply only, or supplied, laid and compacted.
• The site, the dates, the tonnes per day, and the access for tippers and the paver.
• For laying: the traffic accommodation, milling, tack coat and patching scope.